Letter shows ignorance

What happens when a drought hits Kingsburg? People start burying their heads in the sand.

That’s certainly the case after reading the 149-word pile of ignorance in July 23rd’s edition of The Bee from Kathryn Tuell of Kingsburg.

Mrs. Tuell, justice demands action. Even action as simple as recognizing historical fact.

It’s hard to fathom if Americans in 1915 adopted Tuell’s “out-of-sight, out-of-mind” attitude. There would have been no aid given to Armenians fearing clockwork slaughter or deportation. Thankfully, our American predecessors had the moral fiber to stand up and form the Near East Relief.

And had Americans not fought for freedom against tyranny in 1940s, the Armenian Genocide-inspired Holocaust would have gone on unchecked, ending millions more lives.

I’m a third-generation Armenian American. I am and will always be proud to be an American, in good days and bad. But I wouldn’t be here writing this today if it weren’t for my great-grandmother, an Armenian Genocide survivor.

Genocide is considered man’s greatest inhumanity to man, but ignorance is a man’s greatest inhumanity to himself.

Relaxing isn’t the American way, it is the coward’s.

This story was originally published July 25, 2015 at 7:18 AM with the headline "Letter shows ignorance."